[flashrom] Asus A7v600-X works with stable v0.9.0 but not with bleeding edge

Luc Verhaegen libv at skynet.be
Thu Aug 20 09:52:51 CEST 2009


On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 09:44:22AM +0200, Luc Verhaegen wrote:
> 
> Udu,
> 
> An amazing amount of work was done between these two releases, one of 
> the things that changed is that now, when operations fail, you get to 
> actually see it.
> 
> Erase fails, in both cases.
> 
> Flashrom continues nonetheless in the old code.
> Flashrom gives up in the new code.
> 
> When writing back the original image, nothing was ever erased, and of 
> course you can read back the original image still.
> 
> When trying to write the new image (which is different), both old and 
> new fail, as the old image is still there.
> 
> Your flashchip should be welltested, its bigger brother is available 
> quite often.
> Your chipset is also well tested.
> 
> So my guess is that you need a board enable.
> 
> If you can provide me with an lspci -vvnnxx, then i can provide a board 
> enable.
> 
> (Mind you, i am a bit busy atm, could be that i can only manage to 
> finally do this on monday)
> 
> Luc Verhaegen.
> 

Confirmed, you do need a board_enable.

Please also run superiotool -V and get me that output.

Thanks,

Luc Verhaegen.




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